Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...Young greenhouses are spread over 55 acres. Inside these greenhouses, where the native climate of each species of orchid is reproduced, are some 500,000 orchid plants, ranging from seedlings in little glass tubes to blooming flowers, with stems inside specially corked bottles of water, ready for shipment. Daily output of the Young Nurseries averages between 1,000 and 3,000 flowers, reaches such heights as 11,000 on Easter Sunday...
Included in the shipment were scores of other French classics among which were books by Beaumarchais, St. Pierre, Boileau, Corneille, Diderot, La Fontainc. Rochefoucault, Moliere, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Racine, Vegnry, Voltaire, and many others which are used in the study of French Literature at Harvard. Of the ten censored works at least two are known to be read in French courses here. Rabelais' stories are studied in courses of sixteenth century French Literature while extracts from Rousseau's "Confessions" are also used...
Significant was the decision not only for the U. S. Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...
...alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...